The first Christmas Spirit is a "strange figure. This spirit has the proportions of a child, but resembles an old man, although there are no wrinkles on its face. Dressed in a tunic of white that is cinched with a glorious belt of a beautiful sheen. The oddest thing about this small spirit is the bright light that jets out from the crown of its head.
Scrooge is amazed when he sees this spirit whose...
The first Christmas Spirit is a "strange figure. This spirit has the proportions of a child, but resembles an old man, although there are no wrinkles on its face. Dressed in a tunic of white that is cinched with a glorious belt of a beautiful sheen. The oddest thing about this small spirit is the bright light that jets out from the crown of its head.
Scrooge is amazed when he sees this spirit whose hair is white, but has a face that is without wrinkle and has the bloom of youth on its skin. The spirit's arms are exceptionally long and muscular, and the hands, too, seem uncommonly strong; in one hand is a branch of holly in contrast to the bottom of the tunic that is trimmed with summer flowers. Like the arms, the legs and feet are bare. Under the one arm is an extinguisher for a cap, to cover the light emanating from its head.
Then, when Scrooge examines the belt, he notices that one area lights up, then another and the first area is dark so that the spirit seems to be dissolving in one place and reappearing in another. Then, the spirit would appear whole again.
When Scrooge asks this strange spirit if it is the one he has been told to expect, and the spirit affirms that it is: "I am the Ghost of Christmas Past."
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